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> Might as well suspect every single Linux device you have sending an ARP request then, who knows where it's going? Maybe they're exfiltrating it to Canonical. That's a good question. So I looked into Ubuntu, since you men
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4y ago
Comscore ScorecardResearch.com is an example of a 3rd party connection that is not a news site.
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I think I've been quite consistent in asking why these 3rd party connections are being made at all, and saying that they are not needed.
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> "How dare they make requests to 3rd parties" That's exactly right. It's a "Personal Computer". There is no reason (that is in the best interest of the PC's "Owner") for it to connect to &quo
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> I'll take just flying over the charlie at 5500 and taking it easy while on flight following :) Amen, I'll second that! :-)
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> no one seems interested in getting better information Because there is already enough information here. It's a "Personal Computer". There is no reason (that is in the best interest of the PC's "Owner") for
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> Do you know that it wasn't until 1800 or so, and only in the US, where the ever-present spectre of famine was eliminated? Economies simply were unable to produce enough food. It wasn't that the rich were eating it all. There
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There are some theories on the source of these disconnects between talent and odd beliefs. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#%22Brain_eater%22
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> These comments are disappointing. In the midst of rampant disrespect of the user we have story after story such as this. Instead of discussing what is the ethics are of such behavior and where boundaries should be drawn, we get a numbe
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4y ago
So what's your theory on why a fresh Windows PC needs to connect to all these 3rd parties at all?
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> There's literally just nothing else on the device to grab yet... There's no browsing data, there's no app usage data, there's no documents generated. Well, there's your internal and external IP addresses, your
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4y ago
When I signed up for the waitlist for the New Bing (with ChatGPT), I was offered an express lane with this copy: "Access the new Bing even faster" "Get ahead in the line when you complete the following&quo
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4y ago
> I fly in this airspace. (KAUS and KSAT and KDFW) > KAUS might be the most classic example of Class C airspace in existence. They only have 3 App/Dep positions with a spare 4th, and the top of the charlie is 4500 feet. I can ove
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>> They were at the runway already, there's no way for them to have lost their place in the queue for that runway 18L [1]. > Sure there is, enter the runway at bravo, right turn foxtrot, left on alpha and join the conga line.
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> Class B criteria is > 300K operations annually - ~200K is KAUS Under certain circumstances > 220k annual ops qualifies an airport for Class B status [1]. Austin's 2022 vs 2021 traffic is significantly higher [2]. When you in
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Given that Austin has been adding > 50k people annually to its population over the past many years, and now is > 2.2 Million people in the Metro area, it might be time to upgrade KAUS from Class C to Class B, or at least started on th
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> Commercial pressures. Holding for Fedex would have added a few mins They spent a minute extra before starting their takeoff roll; it wouldn't have hurt to wait an additional 5 minutes. Commercial flights build in a generous margin
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Yes, agreed - this certainly appears to lean towards ATC error given the conditions. Maybe the ATC rulebook needs to be updated for conditions, maybe it doesn't. And it might be time to think about TCAS extensions to ground ops for air
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> Actual, natural-born managers are such an incredibly rare species that you can go a long time without seeing any in the wild. So how do we replicate this ability in people? For sports, there are academies to surface and nurture sportin
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> Below, someone mentioned "servant leadership". It is my first time to learn about term. It sounds brilliant. It's a term from Agile/Scrum. > Plus, the it is an interesting idea to strictly tie manager's com
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There might be fundamental incompatibilities here because of orthogonal goals - if you're an ambitious person in a corporate hierarchy won't one (or maybe even primary) goal be to climb the ladder? And if you're a founder won
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> There's a real problem with people being close-minded towards anything that seems fantastical. This includes scientists and other professionals who ought to know better. The thing is, in science, as Sagan so succinctly put it- Ext
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>> Eastern bloc level authoritarianism > That is uncalled for, I know a ton of people that grew up in Warsaw Pact countries and they could in fact walk to Babushka's Dumpling Shop and back without getting their parents arreste
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These agencies were instituted on public demand to reduce abuse at a societal level, and their missions were constituted with those harms in mind - hence the obviousness of those agencies being vital, at least at the time when they were ins
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This is a fascinating discussion. Maybe something to consider is that American society is a lot more individualistic than other cultures. And that individualism is facilitated by distance - after all, proximity forces interaction: even if n
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4y ago
Maybe "joke" should be in air-quotes too, just like "system" !
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Conservative Talk Radio and the Daily Mail? Really? Do you have any better sourcing (a.k.a more reliable sourcing) for these examples?
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It seems to me that you are being unfairly downvoted. At some point there has to be a balance between punishing provably false reports, punishing (or not) good-faith false reports, and not discouraging true reports. This kind of balance is
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> Are they? Seems that they do more harm than good. Do you have any evidence to back this statement?
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> All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents? An ugly person.
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